The four Grand Dukes looked at Rumba with different expressions: Auretheus frowned and looked suspicious, Trudida looked sideways and suspicious, Archduke Lecco looked motionless, as if frozen in place, and Ronnie clenched his fists with disdain in his eyes. ．

After a while, the Grand Duke of Auretheus whispered to everyone: "Are you crazy?"

Crackling.

Six large braziers, mixed with other fuels such as eternal oil and firewood, burn more vigorously.

At this moment, half of the Grand Duke of Black Sand was hidden in the darkness, and half of his body reflected the fire in the hall.

Rumba turned and looked at the empty seat at the end of the rectangular table, his thoughts moving slightly.

When I was a child, I played here with Harold and seemed to recreate the scene.

He unconsciously pressed the saber at his waist.

"Who knows," Rumba's expression was indifferent, and his eyes were indifferent: "Probably." ”

The more confused Auretheus's expression became, his brow began to quiver slightly.

At this moment, Trudida, who had been squinting at Rumba, burst out laughing.

The other Grand Dukes all looked at him.

"Longxiao City, hahaha...... Long Xiaocheng," Trudida's right hand rested on his left arm, against his chin, his shoulders shook with laughter, and the radiant blade embroidered on his chest also swayed up and down: "Divide?"

The Grand Duke of the Reconstructed Tower laughed a few more times, as if he had just heard a good joke.

Obviously, his sense of humor did not infect the other four: they all looked at Trudida silently with cold expressions.

"Sorry...... Haha......"

"Forgive me for my gaffes, guys. Archduke Trudida grinned and shook his head, his right hand still resting on his left arm, and he waved casually towards the archdukes.

But there was not the slightest apology in the words.

"It's not often to hear such astonishing words when sitting in the seat of the Grand Duke," said the Grand Duke of Trudeda's smile which slowly faded, but the smile remained on his face, with a deep meaning in his eyes:

"Especially from another Grand Duke. ”

Rumba looked at him and snorted softly, his expression unpredictable.

"Very good," Grand Duke Auretheus of the Willan Territory interjected coldly, "We have taken the vast land and countless people of Longxiao City, and we have enough food and drink......

"And then, just let your business go, won't you?" he thoughtfully said, but his eyes became less and less kind:

"Like a good business?"

"The king's domain, in exchange for the king's life?"

Rumba didn't look at him, just looked into the air, and said silently: "Don't read me too much, Rebion - you have always been prejudiced against me since you were young. ”

Auretheus sneered, his face ugly.

Archduke Leco, the only one seated, let out a long sigh.

"Ignoring the assassination of His Majesty Nunn, ignoring someone's arrogance and betrayal?" the eldest Grand Duke shook his head, his expression unusually serious, "This is not a good proposal. ”

Rumba looked at Leco, his eyes sharpening.

"I'm sure it's a good proposition, Rogers, Honorable Elder," he said respectfully, "Longxiao City is located in the heart of Exeter, with countless important roads, abundant resources, vast territory, fertile land, and many people. ”

Rumba's eyes moved slightly: "It has a natural suppression advantage over other territories. ”

"During the days of Nunn's reign, you also suffered a great deal – the crossing of the army, the establishment of blockages, the cutting off of supplies, the storage of food, the emigration, the opening of wasteland...... He has tricks up his sleeve against us. ”

Grand Duke Leco sighed, his eyes misty.

"So, solve Longxiao City," Rumba stretched out his right hand, looked around at the Grand Dukes, and slowly clenched his fists: "This is to make the shackles called Walton no longer exist, and to liberate the ...... here Ladies and gentlemen. ”

He glanced at the other four.

But the other Grand Dukes were unmoved.

Only Grand Duke Ronnie raised his chin slightly, first showing an expression that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and then his eyes turned cold.

"That's ......," he said in a deep voice.

"After you did all this, after you shamelessly murdered the monarch, after you entered Valhalla with your troops," Ronnie's voice gradually revealed suppressed anger, "You actually want to use the interests and territory of His Majesty the Former King in exchange for our understanding and our accomplices?"

"And say it so high-sounding......"

"It's as if you're on our side and have to do it for our sake. ”

Grand Duke Ronnie snorted coldly in front of Rumba: "you, Rumba." ”

Rumba looked back at him with a blank face.

Kurikun Ronnie of Prayer City - although he is as bold and upright as rumored, and uncompromising, this is the first time he has seen it.

Maybe it's going to be a nuisance.

Grand Duke Rumba closed his eyes, then slowly opened them.

"I must reiterate, although I have an insoluble misunderstanding and even a grudge with His Majesty Nunn," he said slowly, "but this whole tragedy last night?"

"It's all a plan of the Xingchen people—you've all heard of the secret techniques, and some of you may have seen them. ”

"I'm here to save ourselves before the wounds they left on the dragon kingdom worse. ”

Auretheus unceremoniously interrupted him.

"So what is this?" The Grand Duke of Willan Ling glanced at Rumba with an ugly expression: "Find enough price codes, and then buy us to endorse you?"

"So, you ...... this hall of glory" Alesius's voice rose sharply, and his face was angry: "Is it a bazaar for inferior people to drink and bargain?"

"Don't tarnish our dignity, Your Majesty. ”

Leko watched the conversation of several people coldly, and did not speak.

Rumba's face sank, he lowered his head slightly, and exhaled slowly.

"So, you don't accept this price?" his voice was a little low, "The same thing happened once—three hundred years ago, if it weren't for the Regency of Sarah, Walton would have lost his rule over Longxiao City due to the death of his lord. ”

That is to say. ”

"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for you in 300 years......"

Hearing this, Ronnie couldn't stand it anymore, he slapped the table and shouted angrily:

"It can't be!"

With an offended look on his face, he shouted angrily: "You want us to be willing to fall and conspire with the monarch killer to cover up and tolerate the sins that should have been committed by you, and the evil consequences you left behind?"

"You're insulting us, and you're insulting Exeter!"

Trudida laughed.

"Divide up Longxiao City, God, I can really hear this in my lifetime—on the day when the old king is gone. He said gloomily, looking back and forth with a pair of small eyes.

"But that doesn't excuse us from wiping your ass," said Archduke Trudeda, taking his eyes away from Rumba, and smiling, "It's not a good way to bargain." ”

Rumba looked back at the Grand Duke of the Rebuilt Tower, and his expression changed:

"Really?"

"Trudida, no matter how much you go to the Mountains of Sighing, the barren rebuilding tower will never lack a piece of new arable land," Rumba turned around and faced Trudida head-on, and said something that made the latter slightly stunned: "But if you have two or even three counties southeast of Longxiao City, you don't have to deal with those barbarians in the mountains anymore, and you don't have to worry about every desperate cold food shortage." ”

Trudida narrowed her eyes.

"You mean two enclavies that don't border my land?" the cunning Grand Duke sneered faintly: "Who is it more beneficial to?"

Rumba curled the corners of his mouth.

"Since you said so," Grand Duke Black Sand said in a deep voice that made people shudder, "Pefit of Beacon City has just passed away—and his territory is too close to Longxiao City. ”

The eyes of the four Grand Dukes moved slightly.

"I thought his young brother wasn't good enough to take on the task. Rumba concluded coldly: "Just solve the dilemma of rebuilding the tower - of course, in this case, the division of Longxiao City will have to be said separately, and Qiyuan City and Weilan Ling can be divided more." ”

Trudida was stunned, and he stared blankly at Rumba as if he were meeting him for the first time.

When Grand Duke Ronnie heard this, he scolded with a terrible expression: "Damn it!"

Knock, knock, knock.

Grand Duke Leco tapped his fingers on the table, his eyes subtle.

"From little Chaman, who used to stay behind his brother, to today's famous Grand Duke of the Black Sands......" His voice was long and steady, "I really underestimated you before—the old fellow chose you over the much-anticipated Harold, and it seems that there is a reason." ”

Rumba's pupils tightened slightly.

The scene of twelve years ago reappeared before his eyes.

Harold.

His brother.

The feudal lord he ordained.

He seemed to see the other party lying on the ground again, coughing up blood in pain, and showing a final smile to himself who was crying with tears streaming down his face.

Chaman.

Remember.

We will never give in.

Rumba's eyes froze in the void.

I only heard the bald old duke sigh: "The ambition is really big, to annex the two most central grand dukes in the country in a row?"

My ambition?

No.

Rumba said silently.

My ambition, you can't bear.

Trudida rolled her eyes.

"It's as if the nobles and other Grand Dukes in these fiefdoms are dead," the Grand Duke of the Re-Creation Tower seemed to mock, "There must be a lot of unhappiness over there in Elk City—Beacon City is closer to that goatee, isn't it?" ”

Rumba draws his attention back to reality.

"The fact that Archduke Droke did not come, it was his loss," said Charman Rumba, as if in earnest discussion, "but if you are worried, then we can also negotiate terms with him - we can all reach a good result." ”

Trudida laughed, her intentions indiscerning.

Smack, smack.

Auretheus slapped his palms twice.

"You've had enough," the bearded man said coldly, "do you remember who you are?"

Rumba's eyes moved.

"I know that there is no shortage of land in the Willan Territory, and the reputation of the Alesius family in the hearts of the Northlanders is not insignificant," the Grand Duke of Black Sand nodded, and said to Alesius, "but if you accept this condition, you will no longer have to be caught between the King's Urging Warrant and the Sentinel of the Starwatch City because of the border defense of the Great Needle Forest." ”

"And you, upright Ronnie. Rumba looked at the long visitor from the city of Qiyuan.

"With these new conscripts, the best conscripts in the world, eighty percent of them are fully armed, so that when you face the turmoil in the desert and the Golden Corridor again, you will be confident, at least not so nervous and facing a great enemy. ”

Ronnie didn't say a word, just looked at him coldly.

"As for the Guarded City," Rumba turned to Leco, whose face was wrinkled, "a bonanza in the north of Longxiao City...... Wouldn't it be impossible to add a large territory with rich bikinite mineral deposits?"

"The next time the Grand Duke of Huster, or the new king, forces you to mobilize and fill in the glacial defenses, you can throw a handful of gold coins over to shut them up. ”

Archduke Leco was noncommittal.

"That's enough," Archduke Auretheus interrupted Lomba's one-man show, and he shook his head, "Don't test our patience, we're not here to talk to you and brag." ”

"You should be glad we're still here to listen to your nonsense. Ronnie added unceremoniously.

"But you don't seem to know what you're facing," said the eldest duke, angrily.

"You, you're our biggest problem!"

"Chaman, the king-killer...... At least Chaman, who is suspected of killing the king?"

Rumba frowned slightly, and he glanced around at the expressions of the other three archdukes.

None of them objected to Ronnie's words – not even the most stingy Trudida.

Rumba sighed in his heart.

"You just don't get it, do you?" he raised his right hand with his eyes closed, rubbing his brow. Seems exhausting.

"Even if I'm so sincere, so sincere in giving my offer?" Rumba opened his eyes, he raised his eyebrows, and suddenly raised his voice: "Even if these conditions are actually in your favor?"

"Come on!" Auretheus interrupted him loudly.

"On the morning after the king's death," the bearded Grand Duke snorted, "it was so coincidental that the five Grand Dukes appeared in unison and told them: I'm sorry, Longxiao City is no longer Walton's territory, and you now belong to us, and from now on pay us taxes and accept our calls?"

On the side, Trudida hummed in a strange way, and Ronnie clenched his arms, as if suppressing his anger.

"If you don't take the four of us for fools...... Aletheus continued with his gaze:

"It must be that the nobles under Longxiao City are all regarded as blind, and the people of Longxiao City are regarded as stupid!"

Rumba looked at him silently.

"Even if you look down on those ignorant and rude civilians, the counts of Longxiao City are not good at stubble. Archduke Trudeda, who was watching from the sidelines, sighed:

"They're Northlanders, and they're only loyal to Walton. ”

"Divide up Longxiao City? This would just be a joke. ”

The Grand Duke of the Rebuilding Tower shook his head and spread his hands: "Without that surname, we will never be able to rule this land. ”

"Bribing us with a piece of sweet cheese that we can't even eat to cover up your filth?"

Trudida rolled her eyes and smiled: "At this point, you can't convince us. ”

Rumba frowned.

Archduke Ronnie in front of him snorted heavily.

"And the whole of Exeter, what do you think they will think of us?" Archduke Leco said slowly, his eyes occasionally glinting: "The five archdukes, after conspiring to kill the monarch, divided his territory?"

Leko shook his head and said no more.

Ronnie took a step forward, he narrowed his eyes, and spoke almost rudely into Rumba's face: "Maybe you can be shameless, both to kill relatives and kings." ”

Rumba's face changed.

"Still comfortable and proud ......"

"But remember, we are Northlanders, we are Exeters," said the Grand Duke of Qiyuan City coldly, "We have our own dignity and pride, if you really are 'for the future of Exeter'......"

Ronnie frowned, as if in disgust, "Just stop talking like a Comas, it makes me sick." ”

Rumba closed his eyes, and he turned around and took a few steps, his chest heaving.

He's repressing.

Suppress your growing impatient anger.

Even though he had done a thousand rehearsals, he had expected the reaction of the Grand Dukes.

But......

That's enough.

Rumba's eyes snapped open.

Grand duke?

Behind these short-sighted, stupid moths.

Proud of being noble.

Unaware of the looming crisis.

Turning a blind eye to the most terrible threats.

They never realized where the horror really was that would determine their life and death.

Someday......

Rumba turned back suddenly, his expression determined and determined.

It's like a decision has been made.

The nerves of the four Grand Dukes couldn't help but tense slightly.

But Rumba didn't do anything to flip the chessboard.

"I see," he let out a deep breath for a few seconds, and his expression regained its composure: "What do you mean." ”

The four Grand Dukes exchanged a few glances.

"First of all, do you think we can't take Longxiao City smoothly without hidden dangers?"

Trudida snorted, and the others were noncommittal.

"And secondly," Rumba continued, "according to Ronnie, as Exeters - you have your own creed?"

Ronnie had a fierce face and made a bite motion at him, with a deep disdain in his eyes.

Rumba took a deep breath, his gaze like iron, and resolutely swept over each of the Archdukes of Exeter.

At that moment, Rumba remembered twelve years ago.

I was at that time.

The young man, but his heart is already like ashes, and he has experienced the vicissitudes of life, the little earl who doesn't know where to go.

The heir of the Black Sand Realm—this nightmare title.

At that time, he was also like this, with great perseverance and determination, standing in the Fuxing Palace of the Star Kingdom, standing in the Hall of Stars, facing the Xingchen people who were full of unkind eyes.

Facing the dying old man, the meaning of his eyes is unsettling, the supreme king of the stars, Eddie Bright Star.

Facing the murderous Sword of Light, the blood-ridden Butcher of the Stars, Horace Bright Star.

Facing the king's eldest son, who was seated under the king.

The always smiling, modest-voiced, and unconsciously calming Midil Bright Star.

And also.

Rumba clenched his fists.

And the woman who sat next to King Eddie.

The woman.

Rumba couldn't remember her face clearly.

For some reason, when I think of the woman who was steady and dignified, and her expression was as calm as water, Rumba felt the same as back then—still a heartbeat.

He knew it was a nervous heart.

and fear.

Rumba exhaled, his gaze refocused.

"If that's what you're worried about," he said lightly to the four Grand Justices, "I can fix it." ”

"Longxiao City, and even Fengzhao City," Rumba's voice was heavily nasal, "We can all take it safely and peacefully without trouble." ”

(End of chapter)